This text is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history. Beginning with the funeral of Charles IV of France in 1328, it follows the Hundred Years War up to the surrender of Calais in 1347. ...
TRIAL BY BATTLE is the second volume of Sumption's history of the Hundred Years War. He focuses on the theme of survival as he records the efforts by local communities and townspeople to survive the treacherous horrors and brutality brought on by this prolonged conflict.
We are apt to forget how much people traveled in the Middle Ages. Not only merchants, friars, soldiers and official messengers, but crowds of pilgrims were a familiar sight on the roads of Western Europe. In this engaging work of history, Jonathan Sumption brings alive the traditions of pilgrimage prevalent in Europe from the beginning of ...
The sect that arose during the 11th- and 12th-centuries around the town of Albi, France was influenced by a Persian religious figure, Marni, who advocated a dualistic picture of the universe. The Catholic Church determined that the sect was heretical and, in 1208, launched a crusade that destroyed the Albigensian way of life. This book is both a ...
This second volume on the Hundred Years War traces Edward III's increasing domination of France, from the fall of Calais in 1347 up to 1369. The period is dominated by a succession of crises in French affairs of state; crises that brought it to the verge of ruin. The catastrophic defeat at Poitiers - at the hands of England's Black Prince - ...
Jonathan Sumption explores the traditions of pilgrimage prevalent in Europe from the beginning of Christiantiy to the end of the 15th century. Describing such major destinations as Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago de Compostella and Canterbury, he examines both major figures - popes, kings, queens, scholars, villains - and the common folk of their day. ...
TRIAL BY BATTLE is the second volume of Sumption's history of the Hundred Years War. He focuses on the theme of survival as he records the efforts by local communities and townspeople to survive the treacherous horrors and brutality brought on by this prolonged conflict.
This long-awaited third volume of Jonathan Sumption's monumental history of the war narrates the period from 1369 to 1393, marked by the slow decline of English fortunes and the subsequent rise of French ones.
TRIAL BY FIRE is the first volume of Sumption's history of the Hundred Years War. He describes the state of Europe in the 13th century and how the dispute over lands in France that were governed by the English king led to the conflict that lasted over 120 years. He shows how the court maintained its chivalric distractions and how the local people ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray Pub
Date Published: 01/05/1979
ISBN-13:9780719536519ISBN:0719536510
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Massacre at Montsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade
